Re: emacs-repository-{version|branch} on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: lekktu@gmail.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:20:31 -0400
> 
> >> Maybe the better way forward is to tweak the code so it doesn't silence
> >> this kind of error.
> > Then you'd hit a much worse extremity: that the user is annoyed by
> > problems most of them don't understand and don't want to know about.
> 
> Not necessarily, depends when/where we show the error.  AFAIK this code
> is run while building Emacs, so emitting an error during compilation
> wouldn't be too intrusive (as long as it doesn't prevent the build from
> succeeding).
> Or we could put the error message into those vars.

Those errors show in each and every file-related operation.